This event will take place in-person at the Heyman Center and virtually over Zoom. We ask that everyone register via Zoom, even those who plan to attend in-person.
Topic: In The Roman Republic of Letters, Katharina Volk explores a fascinating chapter of intellectual history, focusing on the literary senators of the mid-first century BCE who came to blows over the future of Rome even as they debated philosophy, history, political theory, linguistics, science, and religion.
Speakers:
Katharina Volk (Columbia University)
Yelena Baraz (Princeton University)
Gareth Williams (Columbia University)
Carmela V. Franklin (Columbia University)
For more information please visit the events page on The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities.